When you are sitting, your posture is usually like this: It is important to note that it is not necessarily sitting, but rather the act of being stationary for an extended period of time that has the potential to cause pain. Albeit, more wordy and far less catchy!Īdditionally, this blog is aimed to clarify the correlations between sitting and lower back pain.
Therefore, I believe a more accurate comparison is that a sedentary lifestyle combined with poor diet and lack of sleep is indeed the new smoking. Lower back pain from sitting is something that Tangelo patients commonly self-report. This contributes to heart disease, which again, according to the CDC, is the number one killer in America. There’s no doubt that a sedentary lifestyle combined with poor nutrition and sleep can be a key factor in the obesity epidemic. Lower back stretches are vital to relieve pain after being seated for hours. Or perhaps it’s because more than 16 million Americans suffer from some form of smoking related diseases, according to the CDC. Maybe it’s because lung cancer strikes a personal chord with me as I have lost a loved one to lung cancer.
While I understand that both have environmental contributors that have an insidious effect on your health, I shy away from making this comparison and claiming apples to apples. We have all heard the phrase, “sitting is the new smoking.” We’ve pulled our favorite low back stretches for those who spend hours sitting still.
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